How much are you spending on food each week?

[narkymum]

I am on about £300 now, what are you doing to cut costs?

[kittywise]

We spend about £1000 a month

[williamsmummy]

we spend about 150 a week, but keep going over.
thats all the cleaning non food stuff, and three meals for 6 for a week.
have allergy label restrictions so cant buy a lot of cheap stuff.

I spend time working out cheap meals, and pre plan menus.

still, I often have to go and get more stuff, mainly for packed lunches!

[Collision]

£5.70 at the butcher for a doz eggs, 2lb minced beef and 4 slices smoked bacon

£33 at Morrisons

This week we are eating

Kedgeree (half price fish)
Pasta with broccoli and anchovies (fave)
Roast beef with all the trimmings
Hot beef salad
Toad in the Hole
Pasta with chickpeas and bacon
Cottage Pie and peas

DH eats lunch at work. DS1 has a packed lunch. DS2 and I have sandwiches at home.

[zaphod]

There are 7 of us, I do my main food shop at Aldi, which comes to about 185 Euro, about £150, and that includes 4 bottles of wine and 12 beers. I would also spend maybe £15 pounds at the local shop or Tesco during the week on stuff Aldi wouldn't have.

[Collision]

sorry - didnt realise this was on 'Larger Families' thread.........

[tazmosis]

2 adults and 4 kids - between £100 and £130 per week at Sainsburys and then another £60 or so a fortnight at Able & cole for meat/fish. could be alot cheaper, but try to get free range/organic as much as possible.

[anynamewilldo]

I spend about £50/60 on meat a month, £200 a forntight in asda, £50 a month on nappies/wet wipes, £30 a month on baby milk, then about £30 a week on fresh veg/bread/milk etc, then depending on if the kids are having packed lunch or school dinners,

Thats for a family of 7, (10yr, 8yrs, 4yrs, 16mths, 9weeks) and of course 2 adults.

[bunky]

Family of six, two adults, four childrens. I spend about £100-£110 each week, and I'm trying to get it down further. Set menus, own brand stuff and keeping an eye out for genuine special offers. Won't compromise on free range, though, it's not worth it, especially when you stretch the chicken for a few meals, too. I do buy and freeze knock-down price meat, though.

I felt really bad about the amount we spend until I read this thread and felt a wee bit better. But seriously impressed with £300 for 12.

[bunky]

oh, yeah, that includes toiletries and household too.

[OldGregg]

I'd guess around £200 per week. £150 goes to Ocado and the rest to milkman, bakers, farm shop, Waitrose and Lidl. That includes household & baby items.

My best saving is rearing my own organic chickens, they cost me about £1 each. We have an orchard and some soft fruit and usually grow veg (but this year I grew a baby instead).

[pastapestofor6]

4 dcs 11-4 me and dh plus 1 large dog spend 70-80 per week, with 2 x 20 pound top ups in between, plus 1 takeaway and canteen money for myself and dh at work
phew its so expensive

[WideWebWitch]

About £200 a week, for 4 of us but that does 3 of us for packed lunches too. Almost all organic, usually Ocado.

[Gobbledigook]

I used to spend about £200 a week in Sainsbury's but now I menu plan and can keep it to about £100 usually. Quite a big saving when you think about what you are actually buying. Goes over if I buy alcohol or stock up at the butchers (quite often).

[GypsyMoth]

6 of us....me and 5 kids. usually go to tesco as i like the bogof's.....sometimes asda too. but lately sainsbury's. don't know why,but i always thought they were more upmarket,but they really aren't!!!

i find lidl expensive these days? not as cheap as they used to be,and compared to tesco,sometimes more expensive!

i'd say we're on about £90 a week....includes everything though.

[AnAngelWithin]

2 adults, 4 children and a labrador, for everything about £125 as week inc dog food, toiletries, cleaning stuff etc. Which I don't think is that bad.

[jade1978]

for 2 adults and 4 kids we spend around £90 at Asda online, then another £40 during the week to top up fruit supplies, milk, odd bottle of wine. It seems to have creeped up around £10 a week now food prices have gone up

[milkybarsrus]

Hi narky, the best place for huge pots and pans (and i mean huge)are indian shops. But, obviously this depends largely on where you live. If you are anywhere near an indian community then you're sorted. I havent looked on the internet for indian suppliers, but you could have a surf and see what you come up with.

[cheapskatemum]

I don't feel too bad now. I seem to be spending £150 every time I go to Tesco's, which is about once a week. That's for pretty much everything except eggs, which we buy at the roadside locally £1.50/dozen. I use Tesco because the local Co ops are tiny and Morrison's is the only other local supermarket. They don't do Clubcard points. I like the idea of not buying crisps, biscuits as these can be bought with pocket money. I never buy sweets. There's 3 adults (me, DH & AP) and 4 DSs, aged 16,14,13 and 10. Also 2 small dogs - am seriously considering cutting down on their treats!

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

Between £40 and £60 a week for 3 of us.

[jemart]

I spend about £60 a week for my husband and I plus two preschoolers. I order online so I can stick to my shopping list without picking up any unplanned extras.

[4girls4chickens]

ours is around £100 for 2 adults, 4 girls ages 15 down to 7months, (although dd4 isn't really eating much at all yet...) that includes loo rolls etc but cleaning gear is refills from health food shop, around £20 each month. we only eat about 4 meat meals a week, all meat is free range. all food is home cooked (except pizza once a month). eggs come from our chickens. for as many months as poss potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and various others come from our garden which of course cuts down the costs, we also swap eggs for fruit from dp's work colleagues when we can. jams, chutneys and cakes tend to be homemade, making them cheaper - in fact blackberry jam costs 83p for 6 jars as that's all it costs for the sugar!

i'd like to cut it further but i don't think i can and sometimes i'd actually just like to blow a couple of hundred on food alone, just be totally wasteful but i couldn't

[thumbwitch]

Too much, primarily on my chocolate habit - will be aiming to give up said chocolate habit by going cold turkey in Australia for 3 weeks, and hope to not go back to it when we return